(windows 10 pro)
I have spectrum internet and use their router because I don’t feel like dealing with replacing routers. Meaning the router config isn’t that in depth compared to having your 3rd party router. I use windscribe VPN, how do I get pihole to block all ads and allow me to windscribe on my devices?
Thanks
My wife uses VPN for work. It will bypass the pihole because it does as intended, create an encrypted virtual private network tunnel directly with their server. Pihole can see the client when it logs on to the home network but will then ignore, and won’t be able to monitor any traffic as soon as my wife logs into her works VPN anyway.
With those limited ISP routers, disable dhcp and let the pihole do the dhcp serving. This is how I do it with a raspberry pi to connect all clients and give out the pihole address automatically. It’s better anyway, as the clients data isn’t all piled up into one 3rd party’s router’s IP address.
For VPN check this:
https://pivpn.io/
https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pihole-with-openvpn-the-easy-way-use-pivpn/7912You need a raspi though, but PiVPN supports openVPN and Wireguard:
https://windscribe.com/features/config-generatorsYou’re vpn is probably using its own dns servers, does your vpn allow you to change the dns settings?
How far through the setup did you get? Why do you think it’s not working?
From reading other comments it seems windscribe may be over ruling it or something
You use a different router that lets you control your dns
Sure, are you buying it for me?
No, not my responsibility. I can make some inexpensive recommendations depending on your technical skill
We both know electronics are you get what you pay for
Really all you gotta do, once pihole is running, is configure your router to use the pihole as your DNS server. The router should still be your DHCP server.
I gotta look up which total I used.
Also pihole isn’t super in depth when it comes to ad blocking. It’ll get most stuff, not you’ll still need to rely on your browser, for example, to do some more blocking with stuff like ublock. Like it won’t block YouTube ads, or most ads in streaming services.
